UNIONDALE, Nassau County (WABC) -- Hundreds lined up in their cars as Nassau County kicked off the distribution of 20,000 free at-home test kits on Thursday. County Executive Laura Curran was there to ...

NEW YORK -- What are the symptoms of omicron? Health experts still don't know if the new variant is causing milder COVID-19, but more indicators are emerging. The World Health Organization's top ...

The newly updated CDC guidelines don't require testing at the end of isolation because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told "Good Morning America" on ...

The coronavirus has come a long way since 2020. While the days of sanitizing Amazon packages and standing six feet apart may feel like they’re behind us (and they very well may be), the SARS-Co-V-2 ...

Official COVID-19 case metrics severely undercount the true number of infections, leaving the United States with a critical blind spot as the most transmissible coronavirus variant yet takes hold. The ...

What is BA.2.86, and how is it related to earlier variants? BA.2.86, nicknamed Pirola, is a highly mutated new omicron sublineage of SARS-CoV-2 that was first detected in Denmark in July 2023. The ...

In a recent study published in the journal Cell, researchers investigated the infectivity, fusogenicity, and immune evasive potential of two novel Omicron subvariants – BA.2.86 and FLip. They used ...